Aquaculture breeding programs have been one key factor that have reduced environmental footprint of aquaculture and improved resource efficiency, product quality and fish health. Current nutritional recommendations state that humans should consume more fishes, including farmed fishes, along with plant-based foods. HiddenGen generates the scientific basis for the development of aquaculture selective breeding programs that will utilize genetic variation that is currently hidden and unexploited behind variation in ploidy levels and structural variants within the genome of farmed European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus L., a representative of salmonid fishes. Current practices utilise only the diploid part of the genome but due to the ancient genome duplication, 5-63% of the genome in salmonids still comprise of non-diploid regions that may harbour genetic variation.

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